Glasgow Festivals World Pipe Band Championships

7th 13th August 2006

Dates below are last years events

Glasgow International Piping Festival and Championships 13 August 2005

Various venues Many of the thousands of pipers from around the world in Glasgow for the World Pipe Band Championships will participate in Piping Live: a festival celebrating the best of current and emerging piping and the diversity of world piping traditions. The Championships themselves will take place on Saturday 13th August on Glasgow Green.

It is expected that more than 5000 of the world’s best and emerging pipers will descend upon the city for the second Glasgow International Piping Festival.

Venues

• Bars Park bar, Brel, Ubiqutous Chip, The Goat
• George Square
• Glasgow Green
• Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
• Glasgow Caledonian University Basic Workshops
• Glasgow Streets
  • Donald Dewar’s Statue/Buchanan Street
  • Sauchiehall Street/Rose Street
  • St Enoch Square
• National Piping Centre
• R.S.A.M.D (Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama)
• Strathclyde University Lord Todd
• The Arches
• St Andrews In the Square

Information on the Championships is available from:

www.rspba.org

www.pipingfestival.co.uk